Midsummer NiGHTopia [open, and still accepting characters, humans now avalible]

Puc appeared at the dream gate, to the fight he never expected... Bomamba dominated the fight while...Eva...."EVA!!!" Puc cried out as he flew to her side, ignoring the other competitors in this epic battle. Puc's announcement easily got Bomamaba's attention as she hover towards them, her doll will be able to handle Chive one her own. "How cute, you decided to come rescue her, your commitment is so durable." Bomamba released a dark aura from her palms, engulfing Puc and Eva into a dark depth world. Bomamba's plan, to break their spirits through a false reality...

Vaye resisted Chive's grip on her arms, but she couldn't break Chive's persona...She took this symbol....this proof of war and struggle....to fight against Bomamba....not with her....she had to break free....to be with Chive....and no longer be Bomamba's doll. "Chive..." Vaye whispered...he had to prove to him she was still herself....that she had fully broken this curse....and that she can finally....fight for what truly maters....by moving her head closer to Chive....and kissing him on the lips...

Eva could only wait for what was sure to be the deciding blow from Bomamba on who would fall between the two of them..but the attack to come didn't concern Eva...all she cared about..was Puc...her ony thought being a hope that he won't be too upset..with her loss..
Forzen with eyes held shut, Eva waited for the final attack to just come and get it over with...but the attack never came...instead...the attack...was a call of her name from a beautiful voice.....P..uc..?
Eva opened her glassy eyes as her head turned sharply to view the call's owner, a warm pulse shooting through her heart as she saw it to be none other than..Puc...the one who should be spending his time getting better, but...came back anyway.
"Oh, Puc..!!" Eva called back out, hugging him as he came close enough with the first tear rolling down her cheek, not caring about anything else..other than just hearing his sweet voice in her ear again, "..Puc...P..uc...Puc..!!"
It was all just too much..she still didn't know what to do..no-...she knows what to do, what she's going to wish for, what she will wish for...she knows...she knows....but why won't the other choice go away..?
All Eva could do was hold onto Puc with hot drops passing down her cheeks, not noticing at all when it happened as everything around fell to pitch black..but opening her eyes to see the sight..all Eva could do was stare with eyes half closed..keeping her grip of Puc strong...there was nothing else to be seen.
".....Wh...What's going on..?"

Puc wanted nothing more to protect Eva, and hold her close.....as Bomamba fired her attack...all Puc could do was hold her close, and hope for the best.
The sound around them silenced, somehow they were no in a world of black. No Sound....little sight....what was this place? There was a flash, Puc closed his eyes to avoid being blinded. The opened them again, to view a strange...and familiar world. Somehow...they were still at the Dream Gate. The only difference...the color....The sky was pitch black, while the trees...white in bark and blue in the leaves....What kind of world was th....
"Welcome to your worst nightmare!!" Bomamba announced to the dark bubble from the outside, and echoed through Puc and Eva's illusion.

The change in the world around them astonished Eva....the once tall and healthy deep green and brown trees that had stood so proudly around, were now colder...starch white with vivid blue...and the sky, that had once swirled purple....now..nothing but the deepest of blacks. "....Where has she taken us?" Eva mumbled out faintly, looking around the unique and bizarre distortion of the gate around them, no sounds of water trickiling from the fountain...no Chive or Vaye in sight...no Exo...and especially....no Bomamba.
...Nightmare-...they're being put through a living-.....what does she really know about them...?

"I'm not sure...." Puc answered honestly, looking around this mysterious replica. "But we need to find a way out..." If this was just another one of Bomamba's tricks, then there would obviously be an escape... But this place seemed so...real....it was hard to tell how to get out of this twisted fantasy, "Any ideas on our escape?" Puc asked Eva...perhaps she would know...and be able to get back to reality.

Eva bit her lip as she gave another look around the discolored Gate, unsure with what action might return them back, but...her only soluton now was...paraloop back?
"Let me try something..." Eva stated calmly, gently moving breaking her hold of Puc as she got herself a little free room to make a portal. With a loop back with then destination focous backed on the normal gate, Eva traced a paraloop...but...something wasn't right...apon finishing her portal......Eva heard one open up.
With a turn, Eva looked to see an open hole a few feet away...could that really be...? Eva had to check...as she ran her arm through her portal..only to see it reapear through the other one.
Im..possible....in order for that...they'd have to be at the gate still...but..this place isn't the Dream Gate....what is this world???

Chive stared down into Vaye's yeow eyes, seeing in them that she wanted to fight back...wanted to regain control, but Bomamba's hold still held tight over her mind..but not as strongly as it once had.
Seeing her just struggle to even act by herself tore Chive up inside. He wanted to help her....he wanted to help...not just sit and watch her fight this all by herself..but..Chive believed she can do it..Vaye has a strong heart, one of the most powerful wills he's seen..she can do it..Chive believed so.
Reciving her kiss Chive let his eyes come to a close, wanting to give her the will to fight back..win against this mind control...be able to be her own person once again..be able to be the sweet Vaye he knows...again..

Puc was glad Eva was still able to paraloop even without her flight...they still have a fighting chance. But yet, when Eva made the portal, the entrance and ending destination....were the same place? How can this be? Eva demonstrated as her hand appeared out of the other side. "I don't think we went anywhere...if we're still at the dream gate....then...-"
but before Puc could continue his analyzes, A giant white hand appeared out of the portal nearby, and grabbed hold of Eva. "EVA!!!" Puc yelled out, flying towards the hand....but at a slow place. This alternative world had a dense gravity, making flying more difficult with this added stress. Bomamba set up this trap....it must be Bomamba...."Break free Eva!!!"

Vaye felt uplifted by the kiss, no control....no forced actions....this Vaye's choice....no one can control her now. "Thank you Chive..." She whispered to him, he deserved all the gratitude in the world....if only she could grant that to him....but her reason to fight was over....just like Chive...there was no reason to keep fighting....however..."Chive....take the persona...defeat Bomamba......we can't let her win..."

"As long as that is what you want, Vaye..." Chive began softly, looking down into Vaye's eased and softend eyes, "..I will do it for you as many time as you like.."
Chive leaned back down, giving Vaye a kiss as he took the persona from her face from its side, placing in on himself as he drew away..to go finish what will be the last senseless fight in this war.
Using his brush as a support Chive pushed himself to his feet, throwing a look up to his brother above..who gave a lazy nod of agreement before taking off downward towards Bomamba, as Chive headed towards her from the ground, both ready to end it already...and save Puc and Eva.
...This situation his sibling is in, though...Exo merely saw it as a test....if Puc can get her out of there...maybe..he might be worthy enough.

"Thank you..." Vaye knew at that moment...why Wizeman granted her the ideya of hope. Little did she know till now, how she hoped for someone to care for and love with an undoubted bound....and with that strong binding hope....came the nightmaren she had searched for far too long...Chive...the true bearer of intelligence...and the one she truly loved...

Without any warning at all a massive white hand captured Eva within its trapping grip, no explanation for its sudden appearance..but....this sudden appearance..it could only be linked to Bomamba...it has to be her..
Eva struggled with her best efforts to get free from the hand's grasp..but with no success..the grip all around her was just too much..with arms locked down at her sides, there was little left she could do....other than do what little she can.
Without much other option left Eva brought her heel up as close to the hand as it could stretch, before digging it into the side of her colorless captor.....It's all just Bomamba...it just has to be her...as long as Eva has Puc..as long as the two of them stay together...Bomamba can't win....they can't let her..

Puc slowly but surely edged his way closer to Eva. He couldn't let her be caught by this white hand...whoever this was....Bomamba won't win!! Grabbing a hold of the white hand, both Eva and Puc were pulled into the portal, into a mysterious chamber, Puc's eyes widen. He saw who's hand this was, staring at the tall clocked figure with several horns and no face......Wizeman.......

It baffled Eva what this random hand's intentions were for her, but seeing Puc grab on made her feel safer, despite their predicament. They were in no shape to be seperated...stuck in some apparent trap created by one of the only opponents left, losing touch with one another would surely lead to the worst fate one could imagine...they're only hope is to stay together...as they were both dragged into the portal, arriving into a completely new area from before....a chamber.
Eva didn't want to turn around..she truely, really didn't...just seeing Puc's widening eyes assured herself that she shouldn't look...but...her curious nature...her horrible, horrible curiousity..made her look, as Eva gradually forced her head to look around...the sight..stopping her breath.
"Ma-....M-..Ma-.." Eva mouthed, choking on her own words as her glassy eyes began to water again...as she stared at her beloved Master...the creator..that doesn't even want her anymore..
"..Master......" Eva choked out, drop falling from her eye as it landed on the starch white hand holding the two, ".....Is that really you..?"

Puc wasn't sure why they were in sight of....him....but....by the return of color in the chamber, this had to be real. Wizeman.....helped them escape. Wizeman's hand lowered the two nightmaren down to the ground, but Puc jumped down before the hand reached the ground, letting Eva safely on the ground. Puc still kept his fighting stance, why would Wizeman save them? "If you must know why you are both here....there was no other away to escape that world.." Wizeman began to speak in his booming low voice.

Eva thought quietly to herself as Wizeman began to lower the two back down, suddenly remembering her mistake..as she immideately set to clearing the disgusting tear that had escaped from her eye off her Master's hand, wiping it away and out of sight before being gently let down next to the ready Puc...longing eyes full of admiration once more..for the one who can never do wrong.
"Thank you..for rescuing us..." Eva began gradually, finding it hard for the first time to speak to her Master...even just to give him her thanks...his soothing voice just reminding her of how things used to be...before she used up her right to live.
Looking over to Puc..Eva could understand why he was still on edge with Master...though he had been returned his flight, it came at the cost of being thrown into a war..and even then, Eva knew Puc has had his reasons not to favor Master..the Master that had placed him into a low class...after secretly sparing his life at a meager request moments beforehand.
Eva accepted the way Puc feels about Wizeman and his actions...she kind of could understand why he might feel some things that he does..but..Master had helped them.......does Puc think this is just going to lead into another trap...?

Bomamba's dark bubble disappeared in a flash. Bomamba stood dumbfounded at the result....there was no way....they couldn't have....she had to focus, lying to Chive and Exo will make her be viewed upon as a powerful sorceress. "Guess they didn't have enough strength....my new powers found them to be weak....and crushed them into dust." Bomamba announced, bellowing an uncertain cackle.

Puc couldn't do it, how could he tank this high being that forces himself to the rank of god....He's removed Puc from his service, and made Puc Eva's servant. Puc had no problem with that, but what he is still angry about, the fact that Wizeman had taken Eva's power of flight, and resigned her from his service. "I can't offer you gratitude Wizeman....." Puc told his former Master in a cold voice
"...Still confident Puc....?" Wizeman asked Puc before turning back to Eva, the six eyes from his hands looking upon her, "As for you...Eva...I've heard your cries....you are not the first to be put through this torment...but you are the only who has stayed loyal even through punishment....tell me....do you wish to be mine again?"
Puc growled at the question...for the simple fact...it sounded like a...a...proposal...

Exo and Chive stopped dead in their tracks as they listened to Bomamba's cackle...thinking on the words she had uttered so happily just moments before.
No..no, she can't be speaking the truth...Puc and Eva...dead? No...no! That has to be false, it just has to be! Surely...surely they escaped..! Eva would ha-...Puc would have....They have to be somewhere...they can't be gone..!
Chive could only stare at Bomamba with a harsh pulse in his chest, not knowing what to think..not sure what to think...not wanting to think that-...that-...he didn't want to think i-!
"Lair." A flat voice called out, Exo sitting with gun twirling around his finger, not believeing that his sibling could be dead...not in such sort time, anyway. "...Where'd you put them?"

A hard thump rocked Eva's chest, pulse thick, heavy..lively, from what's been so long......she couldn't believe it, postively, absolutely couldn't believe it......Master...would take her back..?
A rush of pure bliss pulsed through Eva from head to toe; Master is so kind! So generous! So forgiving! So...so perfect! She...nothing would make her happier than to be able to serve under her perfect Master once again, the most perfect thing in all the worl-..
...The most perfect thing...in all the world....the most perfect thing.....she can't do this..if she takes this offer it will be throwing everything he wishes for away.....she can't do that to him...not to them most perfect thing....not to her most perfect thing....
"..Master..Wizeman..." Eva began breathlessly, mouthing hanging open as he thought of the words to say..the most painful words...she has ever had to say..., "..Master Wizeman...thank you...thank you...thank you, and thank you again. ..I don't deserve such a marvelous thing as to be under your wonderful wing again..yet you...yet I..." Eva couldn't do it..she couldn't say it..it was just too hard, too much! After everything-...its a second chance...! She can't do it...she can't say-.....she..she...Puc...
"...Thank you, Master...thank you..!" Eva murmured as she held back the burning in her eyes, keeping her head up high...heart snapping off its strings in her chest as it plumited into her stomach, as she began again. "Thank you...thank you.....but I can't take back my posit-...posit-...position...!"

"Oh...I guess I can't fool you Vigilance." Bomamba complimented on Exo's precise deduction "However, I won't give that information away so easily." Bomamba was just as lost as the brothers were on where Eva and Puc could have possibly gone. But as long as she kept up this lie, she would have the chance to defeat both Vigilance and Intelligence before they come back....if they come back...

Puc stood quietly, listening to Eva squeal at...Wizeman's offer...and thanking him faster than she could speak it. Puc had to understand....she was loyal till the end....Losing her service, caused Eva to go through a meltdown that almost cost her life....and now that WIzeman wants her back...all she can tell him.....is no??
Puc couldn't believe it....she...she...she refused to be Wizeman's servant again??
Unlike Puc, Wizeman showed no change in emotion, he already expected this choice to occur.
"I understand. Even if you won't serve under my rule again, I shall return to you what I have given to Puc....and you shall both be free to fly." A light shot from on of Wizeman's eyes at Eva, bright sparkles shined off Eva's body....she was a complete nightmaren again.....but even with her persona still intact, the color of green joined the swirling sphere of the infinity ideya.

It hurt Eva to let Wizeman's generous offer slip right through her fingers...but her hope..her dream...she couldn't keep both loves at once...loyalty and pure love....it wasn't possible. To take her place back...ment letting Puc's dream world go..they wouldn't be able to get away if she had to stay and be on wait for the rest of time....but..if she let her place go, they can go....they can go wherever, whenever, whatever time of day they want..just the two of them again..it's all she could want...but to gain one ideal..her heart has to be split.
Suprisingly enough, though....Master didn't seem to mind her choice of secretly staying with Puc...if anything, it seems he might have anticpated it..but as she listened to his harmonic voice and calmly adressed words...Eva was shown amazement once more.....receving the power that had suddeny just gone away...her..flight..
It left a heavy feeling in Eva's heart....such kindness...such wonderful kindess....she missed Master's kindness so, so much...and even after she proved unworthy with living and was cast off...even letting go the offer to come back and redeem her unknown harsh and idiotic blunder...Master still would let her and Puc be whole again...sweet...Master......
"...Master Wizeman....please accept my deepest feelings of graditude...." Eva replied with a soft smile, perfect posture as her hands rested neatly at her waste, unknown to her the trade that had just occured...irreplaceable power..for irreplaceable dream.

Just in an instant Puc had viewed what could be seen as the first...and only time, that Wizeman would bestow his generosity on a loyal nightmaren. Though many nightmaren have been praised for their work, Eva had been given the chance to fly again under her own free will. A kind of action that would make Puc want to thank WIzeman for his actions...but instead, Puc proceeded to make a portal to the Dream Gate, fully aware that the brothers have got their hands full with Bomamba.

Exo wasn't in the best mood to play silly mind games with an obviously stalling opponent, but he did have to admit it, much to his displeasure....she has the upper hand....a hold over Puc and Eva.
Alright..alright, so be it then. Looks like they'll have to play it off her way to get the information they need...but eve before Exo could get his next words ready...Chive made a discovery..
"EXO!" Chive called out widly, pointing to the infinity ideya...as a rush of green now swirled inside with the other colors...no...way...that could only mean-...mean-.........E..va...?
"Well, woud you look at that." Exo announced sarcastically, giving a light-hearted chuckle, with an unsettiling tone humming from it, "Looks like you've gone and knocked out my sister, Miss Bomamba. ...Hah...funny...comical...utterly hillarious...."
Without much notice Exo drew up his gun, aimed straight between Bomamba's eyes, planning to just shoot the mask off her olive face and be done with her, ruin the chance of her wish like she has for both the stooge and her stooge-let, but even then...another distraction....a portal, opening up out of no-where....oh, what is it now????

Bomamba smiled, her ultimate power had destroyed Eva's persona....and possibly her life. They could not survive the tortures of her hand created False Nightmare. "So it is down to us three, I'll make certain you two see the same fate as your sister....one...big....happy..." Bomamba raised her hands, uncertain if she would be able to create another False Nightmare after using most of her mana to create the previous one. "family....!" She fired a dark mana that took shape of sphere at Exo...he will surely be pulled into his worst nightmare.

"EXO!!" Chive cried out as he watched the same attack that has possibly claimed the lives of Puc and Eva rocket towards his own brother, "EXO! MOVE!!!"
...All Exo could do was stare at the approaching curse...watch as the black mass came shooting up to him, most likely to banish him, tear him apart into nothing but dust as the others supposedly suffered...he still didn't believe it.
Although Exo was admitily curous to let this attack strike him and show him whether the fates of his sibling and Puc were true to what Bomamba implies...allowing Chive to remain here by himself will surely result in Bomamba's victory...and he can't have that, now can he....he still hasn't lived up to his bet yet.
Unable to do much in the short seconds he had left until his so called "doom", the best Exo could do was shoot upwards and hope he makes all of him up and away in time...but before he could even get himself going....a chain wrapped around his midsection, yanking him forcefully to the side of his silly sibling...amazement in Exo...to see Chive in such a manner...boldness in his eyes, powerfull eyes, eyes that made Exo..feel proud...but the gained amazement Chive had gathered scattered away within the next instant, as his silly sibling looked down to his brother with unsure eyes, asking, "....Is sister..really....dead...?"

Eva wasn't sure what it was..but...she heard a cry..a cry of her idiot sibling's name echo from behind her...was that voice..Chive?
With a turn, Eva looked to spy a portal that Puc had most likely produced himself, probably back to the gate, where the battle continues on....they had to go back and help...the choice isn't negotiable...but....to go..means leaving Master...unknown...the next time she'll hear his sweet voice again..
"...Thank you, Master.." Eva stated again softly, gliding backwards with her newly recovered power over to Puc, not wishing to leave..but knowing deep within, it was what has to be done, "..I will treasure this..always.."

Regrettably, Bomamba's attacked missed, making her powerful attempt to bring this war to a close all foiled by her only surviving threats, Chive and Exo. She would have to make quick work of them. But with her mana nearly depleted, her only other option would be to fight them hand to hand.....not going to happen!...."She could easily stall them. If they wanted this war to end, they would attack her head on....an easy chance to counter their attacks....

"Go now...you are both dismissed..." Wizeman announced in a collective manner, Puc felt impatient waiting for the chance to leave. Though he was still uncertain of the high being known as Wizeman, he was the only way Eva could stay living....Without Wizeman....nightmare could be perfect.....but at the cost of Eva's life....a lost memory he remembered quite well....Puc jumped through the portal first, appearing back at the battle confident, and ready to fight....
But upon making his arrival, the wandering black orb that Exo was able to dodge, thanks to his quick reacting brother, vanished....and Puc...felt a rush of pain course through him....

Exo got himself back up to his feet with the help of Chive, who quickly set to unchaining his.tangled up brother.
With just the two of them left to take on Bomamba, they did stand a fighting chance..two against one..but..Eva....Puc and Eva...what-....they couldn't really be-...could they...?
...Chive didn't want to think of such a thing-...! No...no! They can't be...they can't be gone!!
..But a light elbow in his side woke Chive back up to the matter at hand, Eco throwing a point with non present brow raised to the side as Chive looked at him..and as Chive turned...he saw Puc.
A tremendous feeling or relief went through Chive just at the sight ofhin..They aren't dead! They made it out! They-...they-....is.....where is Eva....?

Eva didn't want to leave...didn't want to go...but she was going to anyway..Puc would be happier...outside of here...
Giving a respectful bow before doing do much as anything else, Eva savored her few moments left with her Master...before making her spine do a stiff bend back up..forcing her body to move over to the portal the most perfect thing had created..and traveling through..to stand ready with the being she cares for..the strongest Nightmaren alive...Puc. ....But-..his face...-
"...Puc....Puc..are you in pain?"

Puc didn't know what had come over him.....that feeling....that chaos of the false nightmare....it still pulsed through Puc. He was unable to contain this feeling....of rage....something inside him unlocked the door to all the frustration he had kept deep in his mind.....now.....it wanted to strike....this emotion...wanted purpose.

Bomamba looked at the returning pair of nightmaren who were sentence to her ultimatum. But to her surprise...survived their trip to the false nightmare. Even more to her surprise, was Puc's reaction to returning to the Dream Gate...this pulse.....dark and stormy.....it was as Wizeman predicted to her before the war had begun.....this nightmaren......"I should congratulate you two on your return, you both have proven my experiment to be a success."